Mariah Stewart, THE HUFFINGTON POST ST. LOUIS (Huffington Post)– The municipal election in Ferguson, Missouri, this week captivated the nation’s attention by attracting a record-breaking voter...
David Jackson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today)—Hillary Clinton will announce her presidential candidacy on Sunday, seeking to become the first woman in history to win...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press MITCH WEISS, Associated Press NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) — As its population surged in the last decade, South Carolina’s third-largest city...
(CNN) – Hillary Clinton is planning to launch her presidential candidacy on Sunday through a video message on social media, a person close to her campaign-in-waiting...
(New York Times) – It was not a particularly violent crime that sent Michael Megginson to Rikers Island. He was arrested for stealing a cellphone. But in...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Secret Service has placed a high-ranking supervisor on administrative leave and suspended the supervisor’s security clearance after what it called “allegations of...
KEN DILANIAN, AP Intelligence Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Trying to get a handle on hundreds of sensitive, closely held surveillance programs, a Senate committee is compiling...
DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Some teenagers get driving lessons from their parents. Other teens are taught by licensed instructors. But Malia Obama isn’t...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — Nothing has done more to fuel the national debate over police tactics than the dramatic, sometimes grisly videos: A man gasping...
ADAM BEAM, Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul opened his campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination Tuesday with a pledge to...
SOPHIA TAREEN, Associated Press SARA BURNETT, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Rahm Emanuel won re-election Tuesday as voters in Chicago’s first mayoral runoff decided that, despite...
STEVE SZKOTAK, Associated Press APPOMATTOX, Va. (AP) — A Civil War cannonball that ripped through Hannah Reynolds’ master’s cabin made her a footnote of misfortune, the...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Missouri (AP) — Two black candidates have been elected to the Ferguson City Council, tripling African-American representation...
by Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Carib News When U.S. President Barack Obama and Portia Simpson-Miller, Jamaica’s leader, meet in Kingston...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will ask Americans to think of climate change as a threat not just to the environment,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from a former government subcontractor seeking to sue the U.S. government for negligence over his...
Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer D.C.’s Rev. Leah Daughtry has been tapped as chief executive officer of the 2016 Democratic National Convention Committee....
JIM SALTER, Associated Press JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The next Ferguson City Council will face the daunting task of remaking much of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has passed up an early chance to review a contested North Carolina election law that opponents say limits the...
Jennifer Bendery and Dana Leibelson, THE HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON (Huffington Post)—When it comes to restoring the landmark Voting Rights Act, Republican lawmakers don’t seem to...
Yamiche Alcindor, USA TODAY FERGUSON, Mo. (USA Today)—Voters in Ferguson, Mo., go to the polls Tuesday with an opportunity to transform the city’s political fabric...
Katie Zezima, THE WASHINGTON POST CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (The Washington Post)—Sen. Ted Cruz, pacing as he always does when making a stump speech, looked...
(The Washington Post) – The digital age has made it so easy to apply for federal jobs that the government has grown overwhelmed. Flooded by...
(Think Progress) – Today is the official release date for my book, Injustices: The Supreme Court’s History of Comforting the Comforted and Afflicting the Afflicted. As...
(Bloomberg) – Next week, Crystal Stovall will choose between two black candidates running to represent her City Council ward in Ferguson, Missouri. The election is...
